RAM and I/O's and SQL Behaviour

Hi All,
A question, will more RAM memory reduce I/O activity on the harddisk? probably relative to the amount of RAM memory. But for instance if I have a 50GB Database and 64GB of RAM, then SQL would normally load everything into RAM and read I/O's would not occure on the HDD since it can be read from Memory? Yes?
Or will SQL behave differently?
Thanks,
Koen

You can't ping the db into memory but when you run any query/proc it reads from disk and caches into memory and then serves to the client...
When you have more memory, it will not be remove from cache and keeps serving from the cache which is memory....
SQL Server always happy with memory...
When you have more memory then Page Life Expectancy increases.....check the perfmon counter Page Life Expectancy...

Your general assumption of loading all the database to memory is not right, it is only the actual execution of queries would take the amount of data that needs to be return in cache, further you could use disk caching whereby advantage of quicker execution than not having issues on memory.
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